“The governor supports the moratorium,” Aaron McLear, Schwarzenegger’s spokesman, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “He fully and passionately supports John McCain for president, but they will disagree from time to time, and this is one of those cases.”

This isn’t just a matter of Schwarzenegger and McCain at odds; Schwarzenegger’s position jibes with some of McCain’s harshest Golden State critics.

“John McCain’s call to lift the federal moratorium on offshore oil drilling is one of the clearest indications yet that a McCain Presidency would simply continue the disastrous policies of the Bush Administration,” California Democratic Party chairman Art Torres said today. “The fact that McCain supported the moratorium when he ran for president eight years ago shows that his supporters in the oil and gas industries have won him over this election year, at the expense of the environment. Californians are adamantly opposed to further drilling of our coast, one of our state’s most treasured natural assets. This November, voters will side with a leader who cares more about preserving and protecting our coastline than collecting campaign checks from Big Oil.”

And it’s not just this issue on which McCain and Schwarzenegger disagree.

Schwarzenegger has vowed to oppose the proposed constitutional amendment on this November’s ballot which would ban same-sex marraige; McCain said he supports it.